Manuals - Forgotten Weapons

Colt CMG-2 Light Machine Gun Video and Manual

September 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 8

During the 1960s, the Colt company was looking to help market the M-16 rifle to military forces by pairing it with a light machine gun. They were going after the exact same market segment as […]

Announcing the Machine Gun Manual Archive on DVD!

September 24, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

We’ve spent some time scouring through the Forgotten Weapons Archives, and found all the interesting machine gun manuals we have to put together on a single huge DVD. I’m very happy to announce that we […]

ABC’s of Machine Guns

May 14, 2012 Ian McCollum 1

Here’s another neat manual – A.B.C du Mitrailleu – the ABCs of Machine Guns. This was published in 1917 (the fifth edition, anyway) in French, and does a nice job showing all the most useful […]

Small Arms Design Literature

April 18, 2012 Ian McCollum 14

About a week ago, the guys over at Weaponsman were questioning the scarcity of published literature on conceptual small arms design. It seems to me that issue is more one of business competency than technical […]

German Infantry Weapons (World War II)

March 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 2

A little while back, we posted a US military booklet on Japanese Infantry Weapons from WWII, and today we have a similar booklet on German Infantry Weapons of WWII (also thanks to our friend Hrachya). […]

Japanese Infantry Weapons (World War II)

February 28, 2012 Ian McCollum 6

We usually stick to documents relating to a single specific weapon, but today we have an interesting report on a whole bunch of guns. Our friend Hrachya sent us a copy of a 1943 US […]

Lewis info, and some site changes

September 2, 2011 Ian McCollum 2

Okay, I promised I’d be posting some Lewis gun documentation – and I’ve got it ready for you today. There’s a very nice selection – some in English, some in Russian, brief handbooks, detailed manuals, […]

Bren Manuals

August 26, 2011 Ian McCollum 2

As a followup to the Bren video, I figure I should post the Bren gun documents that we have right now: (1942) Bren Small Arms Training (South Africa) (English) Bren Light Machine Gun – Description […]

Prototype FAL manual

August 22, 2011 Ian McCollum 8

The FN FAL was in development very shortly after the conclusion of World War II, during the height of assault rifle fever. Everyone (more or less) was very interested in the concept of the sturmgewehr […]

Polish Instruction Manuals – TT33, Mosin-Nagant, PPS-43

August 19, 2011 Ian McCollum 15

As you may have noticed, a lot of the manuals we post have a definite international flavor to them. Fpor some reason, governments in non-English-speaking countries often don’t print military documents in English. 🙂 Original […]